Insight Quotes

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

I never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had never attended church, was never raised in a religious home, never had any insight of God or who he was until I was 18 years old.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.

Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

I want you to write down your blessings.